Jim Gray (Kentucky politician)
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Mayor Jim Gray pictured at the historic Botherum house Oct. 23, 2015.
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| Mayor of Lexington | |
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Assumed office January 2, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Jim Newberry |
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August 18, 1953 Glasgow, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
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Emory University Western Kentucky University Vanderbilt University (BA) |
James P. Gray II (born 1953) is the mayor of Lexington, Kentucky (Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government). Gray served as the city's vice-mayor from 2006 to 2010 before being elected mayor in November 2010. Gray won re-election to another four-year term on November 4, 2014. In 2016, he ran for the United States Senate seat held by U.S. Senator Rand Paul. Gray won the May 17 Democratic primary with nearly 60% of the vote but lost the November 8 general election to Paul.
Gray was Chairman and CEO of Gray Construction, an engineering, design, and construction company headquartered in Lexington. Once elected, he took an advisory role as Chair of the Board of Directors to focus on his role as mayor.
Gray was raised in Glasgow, Kentucky, the second oldest of Lois and James Norris Gray's six children.
Gray started his college career at Emory University in Atlanta but returned home to help out with the family business when his father died in 1972. He then enrolled at Vanderbilt University, commuting between Glasgow and Nashville while earning a degree in history.
After graduating in 1975, he joined the family construction business full-time.
In 1996, after more than 20 years in the construction industry, Gray accepted an offer to become a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. The Loeb Fellowship program is created for accomplished practitioners "to pause, study, and reflect at a great University [to] enable those who designed and built our cities to return with renewed insight and energy."
Gray's father started the family construction business in 1960, and it has since grown to become one of the twenty largest design-build firms in the country.
Located in the historic Wolf-Wile Building on Lexington's Main St., the Gray Companies include Gray Construction, WS Construction and Gray-I.C.E. Builders, with offices in Anaheim, Birmingham, Bowling Green, Versailles, Lexington, and Tokyo.
The Gray Companies specialize in the design, construction and renovation of large facilities—automotive plants, distribution centers and manufacturing plants—as well as retail and mixed-use developments both in the U.S. and abroad. Among clients for whom major projects have been completed are BMW, CVS, Dollar General, Hitachi, Hyundai, Pepsi Beverages, Procter & Gamble, Siemens and Toyota.
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